This week’s post comes from Steve Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary and Creative Recordings. The tape box in the image above measures 90 mm x 90 mm. Inside, as you can see, is a short loop of tape. This is one of nearly 300 similar items from the Bishop… read more
This week’s selection comes from Sandra Agard, Learning Facilitator. ‘More than a headteacher’ is how cousins Michelle Campbell-Davies and Rachel Clarke describe Betty Campbell, or Nan, as they knew her, in their chat recorded for The Listening Project… read more
On the work of historians of British architecture from the mid twentieth century to the present day read more
This week’s selection comes from Jonathan Benaim, Audio Cataloguing Coordinator. Recordings of weather can give us a palpable sense of a time and place. When sounds from the surrounding environment are captured in a weather recording, we are able to im… read more
Today, the British Library publishes a database of testimony collections that were created over the last two years, which document the UK’s experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this blog Lucy Pinkney, Covid-19 Testimony Project Researcher, writes a… read more